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Roast Chicken with Rosemary

The most delicious spicy oven chicken you've ever tasted.
Intense spicy flavors with a variety of tastes from fresh rosemary, crushed garlic, lemon zest and hot pepper bite, penetrating the flesh of the chicken, thanks to brushing with butter.
The potatoes are very tasty and cooked in aromatic juices of the chicken.
Baking in the plastic bag gives a unique flavor to the food, as it functions as a pot during cooking.
Try it!

work: 20′

time: 2h:20′

easy:

Ingredients (6 servings)

1 chicken, 2- 2.5 kg (4.4- 5.5 lbs)

60 gr (2.1 oz) butter, room temperature

1 sprig, fresh rosemary

2 cloves garlic

1 lemon

1.5 tsp chili flakes

salt & pepper

1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) potatoes

2 tbsp mustard

In a small bowl add the softened butter with the chopped rosemary, crushed garlic, zest of lemon, chili pepper and spice. Stir to mix all ingredients.

With this mixture brush over the chicken outside. Add salt and pepper inside the belly of the bird, cut the lemon into quarters and put it with the rest.
Prepare the potatoes.

Peel, wash and cut the potatoes into thick round slices half a centimeter (0.2 inches). Salt and pepper, brush with the mustard and put them in the oven plastic bag in a single layer.

Place over them the prepared chicken and seal the bag well…

…tying the mouth with a twine.
With scissors cut the top corner of the bag, opening a steam escape hole. Put the package in an ovenproof dish and bake in the oven at 180°C (356°F, Gas 4) for 1:45 to 2:00 hours. Careful not to touch the bag on the sides of the oven.

Chicken baked in the oven, wrapped in manila paper, stuffed with herbs and lemons. Lying on crisp, golden potatoes!
If you like chicken, this is a tasty version with a lot of flavour.
Try chicken in the oven in a slightly different way.

A simple dish of chicken and potatoes in the oven. The difference is that we used tomato and cinnamon instead of the classic lemon juice. A different taste of the chicken, with the wonderful flavor and characteristic aroma of cinnamon!
This is the way that my mother used to cook the chicken. She cooked easter lamb with that same way.
With this simple and delicious way she filled a huge tray / plate with the easter lamb and sent it for roasting to the bakery of the neighborhood. Kids (it was us) loved it, the larges pieces of potatoes, crispy with a brown color, but juicy and fluffy inside.
Do not be surprised by the use of cinnamon, just try it!